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A Burkean inquiry into leader-follower identification motives
(Taylor & Francis, 2006)The primary goal of this paper is to develop a rhetorically based understanding of the dynamics of the identification process between transformational or charismatic leaders and their followers. We bring to bear Burke's ... -
Burrows and Carter Statute Law in New Zealand by Ross Carter [Book Review]
(LexisNexis, 2016)This article reviews the book “Burrows and Carter Statute Law in New Zealand”, by Ross Carter. -
Business and human rights in South Africa: An analysis of antecedents of human rights due diligence
(Springer, 2009)The purpose of the present article is to analyse South African listed companies’ public reporting in order to contribute to our understanding of how and why companies consider human rights. The empirical analysis is placed ... -
Business communication as cultural text: Exchange and feedback of promotional video clips
(Elsevier, 2009)Our research is a response to the need to improve the understanding of the complexity of global professional communication. To investigate the complex cultural interpretations that producers and audiences apply to professional ... -
Business confidence and cyclical turning points: A Markov-Switching approach
(2007-09)Markov regime-switching analysis is used to consider the relationship between business confidence and the probability of turning points in cyclical GDP. We find, in an application to New Zealand, that confidence is related ... -
Business confidence and cyclical turning points: a Markov-switching approach
(Routledge, 2010)Markov regime-switching analysis is used to consider the relationship between business confidence and the probability of turning points in cyclical GDP. We find, in an application to New Zealand, that confidence is related ... -
Business managers in children’s playground : Exploring a problematic (or not!) identity construction of early childhood teachers in New Zealand.
(Sage, 2021)The impacts of neo-liberal education reforms on the early childhood education sector have been a focal point of scholarly critiques in New Zealand. Interestingly, only a few studies have addressed how teacher professional ... -
‘Business managers’ in children’s playground: A call for re-envisioning teachers’ professional identities in Aotearoa New Zealand early childhood policies and practices
(2019)‘Business managers’ in children’s playground: A call for re-envisioning teachers’ professional identities in Aotearoa New Zealand early childhood policies and practices The impacts of neoliberal education reforms on the ... -
Business model design for sustainable society: Therapy for the consumerist mindset
(ANZMAC, 2011)We address the problem of unsustainable business in the consumerist society with a reframing of the purpose of business, in recognition of the power of higher purpose for the company and contribution to society as the ... -
Business networks and the uptake of sustainability practices: the case of New Zealand
(Elsevier, 2007)This paper reports on the adoption of sustainability practices by a sample of over 800 firms in New Zealand, contrasting results from members of the Sustainable Business Network (SBN) with non-members. The study also ... -
The business of social responsibility: Evidence from the garment industry in Northeast Thailand
(2007-12)Many business managers demonstrate a reluctance to engage fully with corporate social responsibility (CSR). They often perceive CSR as a cost and their CSR activities tend to be piecemeal and defensive. Such suboptimal ... -
Busting myths on water weeds
(LakesWater Quality Society, 2015)Troublesome aquatic weeds have been an issue for the Rotorua Te Arawa Lakes for decades, but what do we really know about what drives water weed problems? Some common held beliefs about water weeds are ‘one weed is as bad ... -
"But I still love him": Women talk about love and violence, and counsellors respond
(The University of Waikato, 2021)This feminist research enacts a new materialist performance of theory/practice that investigates love-entangled-with-violence in intimate heterosexual partner relationship. The study investigates the double dilemma of a ... -
But the learning has already passed: Rethinking the role of time in e-mediated learning settings
(Symposium Journals, 2014)Time takes on a different character when online teachers take advantage of the possibilities for interactions occurring over different scales of time. Online teachers' pedagogical link-making becomes cumulative and ... -
Buying your genetic self online: Pitfalls and potential reforms in DNA testing
(IEEE, 2019)Today's orld is one of constant monitoring and tracking-sometimes driven by us, sometimes driven by others. Developments in the field of health and identity are no exception. New technologies, such as wearable devices, and ... -
By rule or by rote? To what extent does children’s spelling improve as a result of learning words with the LOOK, SAY, COVER, WRITE, CHECK, FIX strategy, compared with phonological spelling strategies?
(2017)The present study was a randomised controlled trial designed to compare the effects of two spelling interventions on spelling of taught words and transfer words. The sample consisted of 55 seven-year-olds, including ... -
¹⁴C dating of modern marine and estuarine shellfish
(1998)We measured the ¹⁴C content of 36 living marine molluscs from Tairua Harbour and the rocky coast on the Coromandel Peninsula of New Zealand. We identified species suitable for radiocarbon dating and show that the open ... -
¹⁴C marine reservoir variability in herbivores and deposit-feeding gastropods from an open coastline, Papua New Guinea
(University of Arizona, 2012)Herbivorous and deposit-feeding gastropods are a major component of archaeological shell middens worldwide. They provide a wealth of information about subsistence, economy, environment, and climate, but are generally ... -
Cablegate and the continuing U.S. penetration of Brazil (Cablegate e a Penetração continuada dos EEUU do Brasil)
(Universidade Federal do Ceará, 2015)Jan Black outlined the US penetration of Brazilian politics in the 1960s and 1970s, including the linkages with military and business elites, revealing their compromise on national sovereignty. Based on cables released by ... -
Cache Hierarchy Inspired Compression: a Novel Architecture for Data Streams
(2006)We present an architecture for data streams based on structures typically found in web cache hierarchies. The main idea is to build a meta level analyser from a number of levels constructed over time from a data stream. ...
